This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban …-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …

We develop a theoretical framework that integrates four distinct channels through which others' income can affect … utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and direct effects (relative income hypothesis and …-based median-income data for ZIP codes and MSAs. The relationship is proximity-dependent: positive (negative) with ZIP-code (MSA …

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …

results suggest there is moderate level of "stickiness" in income mobility across generations. Sons are found to be more …. There is virtually no evidence on intergenerational mobility in the context of low income countries in general and Sub …-Saharan Africa in particular. The paper thus provides valuable insights into issues of intergenerational mobility in a low income …

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by … the potential of linked data by showing how using linked administrative variables improves the measurement of income and …

We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for … around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies … or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters' IGEs are higher than sons' indicating lower income mobility for women …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …

strong income gradient in tax response within the top, underlining the importance to study even small top groups separately …. Several mechanisms are investigated. Tax-driven income shifting between wage and capital income is important in the very top …